Ontong Java Plateau — The Ontong Java Plateau is a huge oceanic plateau located in the Pacific Ocean, lying north of the Solomon Islands. The plateau covers an area of approximately 2,000,000 km2 (770,000 sq mi), or roughly the size of Alaska, and reaches a… … Wikipedia
Oceanic plateau — An oceanic plateau (also submarine plateau) is a large, relatively flat submarine region that rises well above the level of the ambient seabed.[1] While many oceanic plateaus are composed of continental crust, and often form a step interrupting… … Wikipedia
Ozeanisches Plateau — Direkt angrenzend an Neuseeland (Bildmitte) das Campbell Plateau (unten) und das dreieckige Challenger Plateau (oben), Teile von Zealandia Ein Ozeanisches Plateau (auch Ozeanplateau, Submarines Plateau oder Untermeerisches Plateau) ist ein… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Hikurangi Plateau — is an Early Cretaceous basaltic oceanic plateau [ [http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1996/95JB03037.shtml Hikurangi Plateau: A Cretaceous large igneous province in the southwest Pacific Ocean ] ] in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The portion of… … Wikipedia
Large igneous province — Only a few of the largest Large Igneous Provinces are indicated (by the dark purple areas) on this geological map, which depicts crustal geologic provinces as seen in seismic refraction data. A Large Igneous Province (LIP) is an extremely large… … Wikipedia
Territorial waters — Schematic map of maritime zones. Territorial waters, or a territorial sea, as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,[1] is a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) from… … Wikipedia
Large Igneous Province — Karoo Basalt, eine magmatische Großprovinz in Südafrika Eine Magmatische Großprovinz, mit dem englischen Ausdruck meist Large Igneous Province (LIP) genannt, ist ein Gebiet der Erdkruste, das sehr große Mengen magmatischer Gesteine enthält (bis… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Mantle plume — A superplume generated by cooling processes in the mantle.[1] A mantle plume is a hypothetical thermal diapir of abnormally hot rock that nucleates at the core mantle boundary and rises through the Earth s mantle. Such plumes were invoked in 1971 … Wikipedia
Anoxic event — As early as 1911, major oceanic currents were well mapped and understood, albeit without today s understanding of how they affect regional and global climatological conditions … Wikipedia
PACIFIQUE (OCÉAN) — La superficie de l’océan Pacifique atteint 181 millions de kilomètres carrés, soit la moitié de tous les océans et plus du tiers de la surface du globe, qui totalise 510 millions de kilomètres carrés. Sa surface est équivalente à celle de tous… … Encyclopédie Universelle
